This is an analysis of the poem To The Children In Mrs. Day's School that begins with:
My dearest children, do you know
That best of all things here below,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb cccddddd eeefgggf hXhijjji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11011101 11011111 01010 11011101 01010111 11110101 01110 010111001 11011111 01111101 01010 010011101 01011101 11011001 11110 10010111 01011111 01011101 01110 01010001 11001101 11110111 11110 11011101 11011111 01111111 010010 11111101 01010101 11111011 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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